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Bug 486298

Summary:	[browser][osx] External Browser doesn't properly verify that browser location exists
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Brian de Alwis <bsd>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Brian de Alwis <bsd>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	sewe
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	4.6 M5
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
See Also:	https://git.eclipse.org/r/64911 https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=b48bd1c89403779fdcd1caf195a6af194c4eb92a
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Description Brian de Alwis

2016-01-21 13:00:04 EST

The external web browser definition logic to verify that the browser location exists is flawed on OS X.  It helpfully allows a .app file to be selected on Mac (which are directories). But it doesn't properly detect when the user specifies a non-existent file/directory.

Comment 1 Eclipse Genie

2016-01-21 13:50:22 EST

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/64911

Comment 2 Eclipse Genie

2016-01-21 15:50:18 EST

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/64911 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=b48bd1c89403779fdcd1caf195a6af194c4eb92a

Comment 3 Brian de Alwis

2016-01-21 15:53:39 EST

Fixed for 4.6M5

Comment 4 Brian de Alwis

2016-01-21 16:07:37 EST

*** Bug 439704 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Brian de Alwis

2016-01-25 15:08:26 EST

Verified in 4.6.0.I20160125-0400